Chapter 33
Chen Jin was in a daze. He hadn't expected, hadn't imagined, that Yao had actually garnered the favor of General Guanjun. While he'd intended to help Yao rise up the social ladder, wasn't the speed of her advancement too fast? However, this matter would take some time to finalize. Butler Wu had urged him to keep it secret, and he would keep it a secret.
When he returned home, he found that Lin Hui had bought good wine and food for his house.
Chen Jin thought of what Captain Zhao Hong had asked him just now. He sighed in his heart, sat down, picked up the wine, and drank with him in silence.
He was silent, so Lin Hui kept inviting him, and the drinking session was quite lively.
After three rounds of drinks, Lin Hui mentioned Yao, and his words showed his disdain for Yao, a woman, and hoped that he would not let her be the recorder anymore.
Chen Jin couldn't help but say, "She won't be a bother to you in any way, you don't have to mind it so much." She is about to be promoted, and you can only look up to her in the future, so why are you still nagging others.
Upon hearing this, Lin Hui knew that he would not change his mind, and his face instantly turned ugly.
He couldn't drink any more of the wine, so he stood up and clasped his fists, saying, "Brother, I must have drunk too much just now. I feel a little dizzy. I want to go back and rest for a while. Goodbye."
Chen Jin was also a little drunk, and didn't care whether he walked or not. Who could blame him for the fact that he had been hit so hard today? He poured himself another glass of wine and sighed. People are different. Why do we have to compare ourselves with others?
Lin Hui came out of Chen Jin's house, and the more he thought about it, the angrier he became, his eyes gradually becoming more sinister. He did not go home, but turned directly into a dark and narrow alley.
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On a winter night in Yichun, the north wind was blowing loudly, making strange noises. Yao Chunnuan and the others washed their bodies, burned their feet, and went to bed early.
During this period, Xiao Jieming found a free space and made another bed. Now Yao Chunnuan and Luo Suyi sleep in one bed each and no longer have to sleep on the same bed.
The wind outside was so strong that it seemed to be blowing the roof off. Yao Chunnuan wrapped herself tightly in her quilt. She thought that if possible, she would try to move to another house.
Living in the same house with Li Taohua, she always looks at her with disgust. Although she is not afraid of her, she gets annoyed when seeing her too much. She is pregnant now and needs to keep a happy mood.
It would be best if the new house had a tiled roof, because the thatched roof made her feel insecure and had poor thermal insulation, Yao Chunnuan thought vaguely as she fell asleep.
In the middle of the night, Yao Chunnuan was awakened by the sounds of fighting and muffled groans. She sat up with a start, and in the dim moonlight and starlight, she saw two or three figures grappling at the door of their room.
A thief broke into their house under the cover of night!
Pregnant women are sleepy, but Xiao Jieming and Luo Suyi are more alert than her. They woke up when the intruders just started to pry open the door.
She could discern the voices of Xiao Jieming and Luo Suyi. Two against one! And from the looks of it, they were the ones with the upper hand.
Yao Chunnuan didn't rush forward, but lowered her voice and said, "Jie Ming Suyi, beat him! Beat him hard! If he dies, it's my responsibility!"
In the darkness, Xiao Jieming and Luo Suyi paused for a moment, then began to exert their strength, beating the people back and forth with all their might.
The man wanted to scream in pain, but Xiao Jieming clamped his teeth together. Unable to cry out in pain, the thief's tears streamed down his face. "Are these two devils?" They kept hitting him where it hurt the most.
Everything on Yao Chunnuan's side was done in the dark, and there was quite a lot of noise in the middle of the night.
The closest ones were Li Taohua's family. Boss Zeng was startled awake and was about to throw off the quilt and get out of bed to take a look when Li Taohua, who had already woken up, hugged him tightly and asked, "What are you doing?"
"I'll go and see—"
"What's so good about it? What if you get hurt?"
Boss Zeng pulled her hand away with force and said, "Shut up. This is a matter of life and death. How can we pretend we don't know? Just think about it, what if we are the ones who encounter this..." As he spoke, Boss Zeng went to rescue the sleeping Second Zeng, and then picked up a wooden stick as thick as his arm and went out.
Li Taohua was so angry that she pounded the bed.
When Boss Zeng arrived, he found that there was only one thief, who had been subdued and was lying flat on the ground, motionless.
He was shocked and asked, "You killed someone?"
"No." He was still breathing.
In the light of the oil lamp, Yao Chunnuan's eyes fell on the thick wooden stick in Boss Zeng's hand and nodded at him.
Boss Zeng smiled and said, "I just heard the noise and came out to check. It's a pity that I can't help."
Although she couldn't help, Yao Chunnuan also accepted his kindness and said, "Thank you very much."
Xiao Jieming grabbed the man's hair and asked, "Tell me, who sent you here?"
"No, no one." The thief shook his head with difficulty.
He was a habitual thief. He had overheard a tip during the day and had chosen his target. He really just wanted to make some money. In the prisoner labor area, mutiny was not allowed at night. He was confident he could escape before the other party noticed him and reacted. However, he didn't expect that he would be discovered and blocked as soon as he started. What bad luck!
"Or is it? Don't forget where this place is. How long do you think you can keep being stubborn?"
The thief said with difficulty, "There really was no one who ordered me to do this." He was about to cry. If there really was someone, he would definitely confess.
Li Taohua, who had just put on her clothes and came out from behind, rolled her eyes and said, "Who knows who she offended to have someone come to her house in the middle of the night."
Yao Chunnuan asked, "Aren't you the one I offended? Could it be that you are the mastermind behind this?"
Hearing this, Li Taohua's eyes widened and she became anxious, "Mr. Yao, please stop slandering me!"
"Just shut up! If you can't speak, don't speak! Second brother, take her back." Zeng Lao Da was in a headache. He hadn't realized that Li Taohua's mouth could easily offend people. Originally, he had woken up in the middle of the night to help, and although he couldn't help, judging by Yao's attitude, she had appreciated his kindness. But then Li Taohua spoke up. Well, now she didn't take offense.
Yao Chunnuan said, "Boss Zeng, you should go back too."
Boss Zeng nodded. He understood that the Yao family obviously didn't want to have close ties with them.
Without the outsiders around, Xiao Jieming continued to interrogate the thief, "Then how did you come up with the idea of sneaking into our place?"
The thief looked up at Yao Chunnuan and said, "It was this afternoon when I heard that you were spending money like water at the market. I thought you must be a fat sheep. So I thought I'd take some money from you."
She spent money like water at the market, and that was almost half a month ago. "Do you remember who told you that?"
The thief shook his head.
Yao Chunnuan seemed to be lost in thought. She did not believe in coincidences, but rather believed that someone had done it on purpose.
Among the people she has offended so far are the Wang and Han families, Lin Hui, and at most, Li Taohua who always complains.
Among these people, the Wang family can be excluded first.
Because if a thief sneaks into her house at night to steal, she is very likely to be frightened, or a fight may break out between the two sides, resulting in bloodshed, and the baby in her belly may be killed.
Although the Wang family doesn't like her, they probably won't harm the baby in her belly.
If the Wang family were truly so ruthless, they would have acted two or three days after the market. Because she got promoted the day after the market. That was when they were most upset, and that's when they would have acted.
The second one she ruled out was the Han family, which was also the reason behind it. After the most exciting period, they didn't take action, so they wouldn't take action again. Moreover, the Han family was a little afraid of her recently, and their situation was not good, so they were busy taking care of themselves.
Of course, we can't rule out the possibility that someone with malicious intent has deliberately delayed action until now. The probability is low, so let's not dwell on it for now.
The same goes for Li Taohua. The two or three days after her promotion were when her negative emotions fluctuated the most. Moreover, there was nothing unusual when she faced the thief tonight, so he could basically be ruled out as a suspect.
Compared to others, Yao Chunnuan is more suspicious of Lin Hui.
In fact, the person who was most stimulated by her role as recorder should be Lin Hui.
Would he not want to take action? No, he did. It was just that her promotion caught him off guard.
Her existence continued to harm the other party's interests, and eventually made the other party unable to bear it any longer.
Think about it the other way around. If she was frightened when the thief broke into her house, or if a fight broke out between the two sides, leading to bloodshed, and ultimately miscarriage or injury, Lin Hui would be the direct beneficiary at the moment, because she would no longer be able to serve as a recorder.
So she said that compared with the other three parties, Lin Hui was the most suspicious.
"What should we do now?" Xiao Jieming asked.
"It's still early in the morning, let's tie them up first and send them to Chen Jin tomorrow morning." Yao Chunnuan looked at the wounds on their faces, thought for a moment and said, "I'll get you some medicine to apply to your wounds later."
The next day, before dawn, Yao Chunnuan and Xiao Jie ordered Luo Suyi and the other two to take the thief to see Chen Jin. Yao Chunnuan also told him her guess.
When Chen Jin heard that Lin Hui might be the mastermind behind deliberately inducing the thieves to steal from Yao Chunnuan's house, he subconsciously wanted to refute it, but when he thought about the ugly face on his face when he persuaded him not to employ Yao while drinking last night and he did not do as he wished, he felt that this was very possible.
Yao Chunnuan noticed his hesitation. It was good that Chen Jin had doubts about Lin Hui. She was afraid that he would trust Lin Hui completely. If that happened, it would take her a lot of effort to deal with Lin Hui.
Yao Chunnuan didn't know that even if he had no doubts about Lin Hui, he would still take her proposal seriously, because she was the talent reserved by the Champion General, her words carried a different weight, and her safety could not be compromised.
But Yao Chunnuan still had to say some things, so that Chen Jin would not think that she was forcing him, and people are most motivated when they do things for themselves.
"Sir, logically speaking, although a thief broke into our house last night, none of us three were injured, and we even caught the thief. Many people would think that the matter should be over at this point, and there's no need to dig deeper or press harder."
"Actually, I think it wouldn't matter if something happened to me personally, since I'm going to die anyway. But if my suspicions are true, I don't think it's good for you to have someone like that close to you. I'm your subordinate after all, and you promoted me because you recognized my abilities. I should be useful to you. As the saying goes, a hero needs three helpers. You came from the military, so if you want to move up, support from below is also very important. And Lin Hui ignored this and plotted against me, which doesn't mean he doesn't have your best interests at heart."
"Although adults are indifferent and don't care whether we can go further, there is still a difference between not caring and being unable to go further because of others' selfishness. If adults are willing to sacrifice their own interests to fulfill the other party, just pretend that I said nothing." People are selfish, and few people can tolerate their power and interests being constantly damaged by others.
Yao Chunnuan's words made Chen Jin clear-headed. He had always been hesitant in dealing with Lin Hui's matter before and couldn't figure out the pros and cons of the matter.
Chen Jin thought for a moment and said, "Your suspicion is quite reasonable, but from what I've heard about the whole thing, Lin Hui's involvement is very subtle. Without evidence, it's going to be hard to get him to confess, right?"
"I have a method you can try."
"However you try, I'll cooperate with you."
"Thank you, sir."
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